"The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges."

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Source : Max Hastings (2008). “Retribution”, p.12, Vintage

Max Hastings

#War Quotes #Brotherhood Quotes

“State has the primary responsibility but the citizen has to spend his or her funds. This is part of neo-liberalism.”
“Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.”
“I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.”
“I wouldn't participate in 'Stars on Ice' if I were asked. I find it an amateurish tour in a way, the production quality.”
“Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.”
“There's nothing cooler than someone explaining to you, as if it was easy, how they create antimatter. And they kept saying things like, "Well obviously you know that..."”
“No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene Only then I am human Only then I am clean”
“One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain.”

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